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S7 E4 Paradise Lost · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I almost famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with R Radio. Two weeks in a row, ash I
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  Speaker 1: get to see again. Yeah, it's so nice. I like
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  Speaker 1: you with glasses. Yeah, I'm wearing glasses right now. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of my new thing because I know my eyes
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  Speaker 1: were getting tired because I was looking at a computer
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  Speaker 1: screen too much. And so my optometrist, Mitch Reinhold and
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  Speaker 1: worse than Indiana, shout out to him. Oh he's a
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  Speaker 1: good dude, but a friend since I was little. He
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  Speaker 1: was he was the captain of my elementary basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: That's um. He said. If I got these glasses that
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  Speaker 1: have like this, I don't know, computer screen protection a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of prescription than my eyes want to get
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  Speaker 1: us fired. So at night I feel good. That's the
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  Speaker 1: new thing is getting that postion on there. Also, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I've been reading that this is the light from a screen,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's your computer or your phone, could actually damage
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  Speaker 1: your skin. Like now new skin products are putting like
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  Speaker 1: technology light protection in them. This is a good point.
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  Speaker 1: So I think everybody in here will will shake their
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  Speaker 1: heads in agreement. I think in ten years we'll find
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  Speaker 1: out that cell phones are really bad for us. I
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  Speaker 1: think we're going to find that out too. I remember
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  Speaker 1: when cell phones like really started to get popular, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like early two thousand's, and everybody was like, oh, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to create brain tumors, Like there are ladies. I
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  Speaker 1: remember my mom being like, there is a lady and
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  Speaker 1: she got a brain tumor right where she held holds
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  Speaker 1: her phone, And yeah, I think it might happen. It's
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  Speaker 1: really really scary, it is, and so what are we
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  Speaker 1: gonna do about it? But because here's I don't know
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  Speaker 1: we I actually was just talking to a few friends
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  Speaker 1: the other day and they made a comment that happens often, right,
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  Speaker 1: but this one hit me. They said she was older,
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  Speaker 1: she has a daughter who's in college. She said, my
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  Speaker 1: daughter is more addicted to her cell phone than anything
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  Speaker 1: else in life. And I'm thinking an addiction to a
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  Speaker 1: cel phone is at a possibility, and it is. There's
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  Speaker 1: so many people today that hold that thing so close
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  Speaker 1: to them around them that it's gonna take a medical
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  Speaker 1: breakthrough or just some knowledge being spread for that to stop.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like we should just kind of campaign
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  Speaker 1: to put your cell phone away and down. Can this
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  Speaker 1: podcast put a firm stance on hey put your cell
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  Speaker 1: phone down, put it away after you listen to the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: put it in your pocket, Like I'm so bad that
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  Speaker 1: if it's not in my butt pocket or in my
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  Speaker 1: hand and it's just like loose in my purse, I
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  Speaker 1: get worried about it being loose in my purse. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's how close it needs to be to men. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why you can work on that step on iCloud.
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  Speaker 1: It's not as if I like, I'm gonna lose everything
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  Speaker 1: if I lose the phone. Can we can we work
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  Speaker 1: on this? Can Can I hold you accountable to maybe
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  Speaker 1: putting it away and putting it down for a while.
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  Speaker 1: I totally believe in that in social situations, but not
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  Speaker 1: during the work we've got us improving to do. If
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  Speaker 1: I may, Yeah, this is Mark, thank you. My wife
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  Speaker 1: just had a salivary gland tumor removed. And if you
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  Speaker 1: google those, you'll see that they have really gone up
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  Speaker 1: in the past twenty years. Your mouth right there on
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  Speaker 1: the side, right by her ear. It was benign and
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  Speaker 1: everything's fine, but those of skyrocket in the past twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: And no doctor will tell you it's because of cell phones,
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  Speaker 1: because they don't want to get sued, but I can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine any other correlation than my goodness. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: a major surgery in a real direction. We should at least,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we should at least take this really serious.
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  Speaker 1: I think so. And now there's the information that the
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  Speaker 1: blue light from tablets, laptops, phones are causing us to
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  Speaker 1: go blind. I mean, I think it's good, want to
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  Speaker 1: be This might be the marker of this last ten
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years. You know, we we've learned what fat free
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  Speaker 1: products are bad for you. We've learned, um, you know
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  Speaker 1: that trans fats that we've learned all these stuff, the oils, gluten,
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  Speaker 1: all these things keep coming up. Now it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a really interesting time period of gluten is bs O. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be really excited for that one. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I understand if you have a gluten allergy or
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  Speaker 1: an in tolerance, but like the average person doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to abstain from gluten. Yeah, I know. Well, here here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. I think I'm with Mark and with all
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  Speaker 1: of you, um that it's gonna be an issue. But
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  Speaker 1: so think about anybody out there's just think about it.
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  Speaker 1: We love you, we want you, we want you to
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  Speaker 1: be happy. And healthy. I guess this is part of
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  Speaker 1: getting older, but like I first started need glasses while
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  Speaker 1: driving at the age of four, and now it's like,
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  Speaker 1: holy crap. I'm I mean I can see during the day,
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  Speaker 1: but at night, I can't read any signs. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: a weird. So maybe or maybe it's just because my
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  Speaker 1: phone is always right here in my face. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is a really good one, especially for the you know,
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  Speaker 1: for the people in this we're gonna be talking about
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  Speaker 1: because cell phones are such a vital piece of our income,
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  Speaker 1: our lives are community for really anybody out there. So
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  Speaker 1: so let's say that almost famous podcast believes in putting
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  Speaker 1: your cell phones down, put them away for at least
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  Speaker 1: a couple hours at night. Um, hey, ash, we got
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  Speaker 1: a huge, huge podcast. One of I would say, the
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  Speaker 1: Superstars the Bachelor franchise. Um, Melissa Ryecroft is going to
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  Speaker 1: be in studio with us today. She really is a
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  Speaker 1: she's a huge name to that came out of the
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  Speaker 1: show like, um wow. And it was when she was
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  Speaker 1: she was engaged to Jason Mesnick for a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and she really took off with hosting and her big
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  Speaker 1: television career was like unlike any eveyone else. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: wonner heard Jason feels about that. I don't think he cares. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk to Melissa Yecraft. We're gonna break
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  Speaker 1: down this week's episode of Bachelor and parties. Things are
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  Speaker 1: getting he did, things are getting crazy, but beyond all that,
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  Speaker 1: love is being formed. Yeah, curious, it's pretty excite. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk that walk through, and we're listening to some emails.
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  Speaker 1: Let's read some emails to day. We have none emails
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  Speaker 1: in a while, and it's one of our favorite things.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, a very short but very important segment one
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  Speaker 1: of our favorite guests ever on the podcast. We're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep having him back because his UM, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want him arguments, but we're gonna call this segment. UM,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna call it chicken Nuggets with David because you
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  Speaker 1: did say, you guys that you wanted him back, that
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  Speaker 1: he should have a weekly spot. So here he is,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not happy with him. I'm not happy with him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not at all. I think the guy has so
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  Speaker 1: much potential. I do like him, he just continues to
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  Speaker 1: dig himself a hole. We have so much to break
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  Speaker 1: down with him. I'm just not thrilled with David right now.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to David's ex girlfriend if he
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  Speaker 1: has one. I think he does. I mean I don't yet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Chicken Nuggets with David Rabbits. Melissa Ryecroft
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  Speaker 1: breaking down this week's episodes A Bachelor in Paradise. It's
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  Speaker 1: a huge show. But before we get to Melissa, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: ash I'm allergic to latex. You know that? No? I
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  Speaker 1: didn't you know how I found out condom? No? No, no, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: come on, um, it's the live Strong bands. No way,
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  Speaker 1: that's my arms. We swelled up, got all red, got
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  Speaker 1: all old for you. Yeah, those things not ten. I
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  Speaker 1: think I was a junior in college when those are hot.
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  Speaker 1: So you're a sophomore. Okay, so I was like six. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the queen of correcting people when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: age and time. I don't know any timelines. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why I can. I can tell you that it happened,
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you when. So anyways, I'm allergic to latex.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wear latex anymore. It's a big deal to me.
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  Speaker 1: But I wonder if I could if the bracelets or
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  Speaker 1: whatever you put on your body that's made of latex,
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  Speaker 1: were made out of natural latex. I wonder if it
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  Speaker 1: would work. And uh, hey for anybody out there listening, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you get to do what you want in your private time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I don't mind else to do it. Like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: do we support this? Do we support sex before marriage?
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  Speaker 1: Do we support We'll talk about it. We support talking
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  Speaker 1: about it. We support you making making this a bigger
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  Speaker 1: issue than it really is because it's gonna be. But
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  Speaker 1: we have a sponsor that shouldn't mix things up a bit. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're standing against the gluten intolerance and uh, we're standing
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  Speaker 1: go back and listen to it. Hey, Melissa Ryecroft, Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the Almost Famous Podcast. Thanks guys. It's a big
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  Speaker 1: deal to have you here, is it? Yeah? It really is.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that? Because I'm an You're you are o G.
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  Speaker 1: But you're also like old Not no, you're only thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: only five. Yes, you've accomplished. You have three kids. I
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of that. You look good for thirty five.
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  Speaker 1: I no, no, you're looking you look great. I'll take it. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But you have three kids and you have created this
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  Speaker 1: amazing media career for yourself. After you know, being dumped
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  Speaker 1: by Jason. You know, it's all about timing, right. It happened, thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: somebody got hurt. Not thankfully, somebody got hurt on Dancing
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  Speaker 1: with the Stars. But you know what I mean. Can
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  Speaker 1: we start at the beginning, because when you're coming in
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  Speaker 1: here saying your name is everywhere, you're very popular. You've
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  Speaker 1: done a great job for yourself, kind of moving on
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  Speaker 1: from the franchise, which I'm sure you know after the
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  Speaker 1: heartbreak you needed to do. Um. But for all the
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  Speaker 1: fans out they're listening, can you give us a quick
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  Speaker 1: recap on how they would know you, what your story
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  Speaker 1: is in relation with the Bachelor franchise, and kind of
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  Speaker 1: where you're at now. You want to recap of that,
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  Speaker 1: give it to us. UM. Let's see. I I was
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  Speaker 1: on The Bachelor UM eleven twelve years ago. I had
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  Speaker 1: a friend nominate me because I was going through like
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  Speaker 1: a seven year breakup. What seven year breakup? I was
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  Speaker 1: with a guy? Oh, he wasn't a guy. You're with
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  Speaker 1: a guy for seven years, then he broke up for
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  Speaker 1: seven years. We broke up constantly getting broken up with
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  Speaker 1: for seven years. Yeah, well stuff like that. So a
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  Speaker 1: friend nominated me, and I don't know how they do
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  Speaker 1: it now. I got a packet in the mail and
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  Speaker 1: filled it out, had to make a video and pretty
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  Speaker 1: much kind of said I'll go with it and see.
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  Speaker 1: Life in Dallas wasn't really treating me well at the time.
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  Speaker 1: I was twenty four. Who was your bachelor, Jason Jason Mesnick.
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  Speaker 1: He had the boy the little one tie my ex's name.
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  Speaker 1: That was fun. That was plot twist um And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: through the process we got engaged. And sometime between then
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  Speaker 1: and the after the final rose, You're just like, nah,
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  Speaker 1: no he did, oh he said, nah he, I guess
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  Speaker 1: was talking to I thought that it was like I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was more mutual. That's why we call it
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  Speaker 1: an ari pulling an ari. So yeah, well, the only
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  Speaker 1: difference was and maybe everybody knew, but mine had been
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  Speaker 1: Mine was on the after the final rows Um, they
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  Speaker 1: had moved up the tape date, and I'm like, gosh,
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  Speaker 1: why did they move up the tape date? I understand
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  Speaker 1: weren't supposed to tape this for another month. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: lo and behold, he had been telling producers, Hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to Molly. I'd like to start a relationship with her.
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  Speaker 1: So of course producers like gold, don't tell mel Let's
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  Speaker 1: get this all on camera. Did you feel like you're
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  Speaker 1: on the rocks though? I mean, I'll be honest, it did.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't great, But in my mind, I'm like, listen, it's
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  Speaker 1: weird right now. The show's kind of airing and it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, you come out of it going I'm engaged.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell anybody I'm engaged. So it's a weird
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  Speaker 1: reality of my life has changed, but I can't act
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  Speaker 1: like it's changed. It's a weird mind trip. Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 1: Hang out. Um, No, we didn't have time. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: have like happy couple of weekends. We didn't have time
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  Speaker 1: for those. Yeah, there wasn't much time difference between when
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  Speaker 1: I accepted a proposal and when he took it away.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is crazy. We we just saw this
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  Speaker 1: this year. We just talked about me again. It just
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  Speaker 1: happened again. So you're on the Bachelor. Um, hurt probably
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  Speaker 1: to get broken up with you know. It was embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: more than anything. And what was embarrassing for me is
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at everybody, Chris Harrison, everybody going. You
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  Speaker 1: all knew why I was coming they put me in
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  Speaker 1: address that I didn't bring, They put me in that
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  Speaker 1: little tight tube top, they gave me my engagement ring
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  Speaker 1: and sent me out on stage, and so I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it does. But that's sort of what happened to at
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  Speaker 1: the house. It's a little different when it's at the house,
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  Speaker 1: not in front of an audience. Here's here's one theme.
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  Speaker 1: I see the person that gets broken up with in
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  Speaker 1: this situation. Typically I was okay for themselves. You do
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  Speaker 1: have people rooting for you, and that happened absolutely, um,
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  Speaker 1: and so they know you from Jason Mesnick season you
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  Speaker 1: were the person that got broken up with and from
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  Speaker 1: there on out your career has skyrocketed too incredible places. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I mean The Bachelor wasn't your last reality television show
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  Speaker 1: you did. You're a fan favorite with Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 1: You got put on Dance with the Stars because of
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  Speaker 1: an injury. Correct, Yes, And that was the timing thing
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  Speaker 1: I was telling you about because my after the final
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  Speaker 1: Rows aired Monday, somebody got hurt on Tuesday and it
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  Speaker 1: just happened. It was on ABC, and I'm sure they
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  Speaker 1: were like, oh my gosh, this just happened. We need
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  Speaker 1: this girl. Well, that's good, perfect timing. But you didn't
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  Speaker 1: get the bachelorette role they asked they did, Yeah, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I was just really mad. Again. I had no time
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  Speaker 1: to process it. I was in the limo crying walking
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  Speaker 1: away from that, and one of the producers went, but
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  Speaker 1: now you get to be bachelorette. I'll never forget that
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  Speaker 1: moment because I went, did you not just see what
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  Speaker 1: happened to me? And now you're telling me the good
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  Speaker 1: news is I can be bachelorette? And you guys have
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  Speaker 1: to keep in mind, this is eleven years ago. There's
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  Speaker 1: no social media, there's none of that. People didn't go
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: on the show and get careers out of it, you know.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just kind of something silly that
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: you did. And so they tried for a month, I think,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: to really get me to do it. And they kept saying,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the audience needs to see you, okay, and they're going
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: to be rooting for you. But I'm like, I just
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: saw you throw your bachelor under the bus, and you
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you made everybody really angry at him, and I don't
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I don't trust the system right now, and I don't
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: trust you. Um I'm over obviously. That's so then but
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: in my at the time, that was my mind space,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: so I didn't I didn't want to be. If you're
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: not over, this is the place to say you're not.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Can I lay on a couch like there? I have
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: a question on that. Would you say that the producers
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: just have to focus on making a TV show rather
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: than get so emotionally invested in it. Otherwise you can't
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: make a TV show. Yeah, there's is a weird I
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: think balance there. I think you mostly have to make
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a TV show. That's their job. That's why they're there,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: that's what it's what it's gonna keep them going. I
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: get that their storytellers on anybody's love story, and they're
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: just kind of picking up the pieces or picking up
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the stories it goes and documenting it. Um. But there's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a little piece that I hope they care because I
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: can't imagine them walking into this year every year, every
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: year without caring at all about the personal feelings and
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: emotions from the people. I think that's what continues to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: motivate them to say, Okay, I'm not a terrible person.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Um So, I do think it's important that they care,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and I have seen I think real tears from a
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: producer once or twice, and I think it's wild, like
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: not the fake ones that you're like an interview, You're
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: like you got me. It's like, no, you actually like
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: feel for this person right now. Um, so yeah, I
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: think it's a good balance. And in your case, it hurt.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: This was real life, but but it all kind of
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: come was back together. Um, because you're doing okay, don't
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: we have to blame Jason a little bit for going
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: along with that. I mean there's no way that they
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: were going to force him into that situation. Like even
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Ari was like, I'll do it on camera, but I'm
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: not going to do it in front of people. And like,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: here's to blend Jason though, And again this is after
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the fact, having having had a lot of closure and
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: thinking about it now he's married to this absolutely yeah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: But I think Jason didn't know any better either. I
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: think we were in an age where a producer told
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: you something and you went okay. I think I think
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: he was probably told by some higher up, don't tell her.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: The audience is going to want to see this, and
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: he said, okay, if that's if that's really what you
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: think is best, then I'll do it. And I think
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: he got kind of blindsided with doing what he's told
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: as opposed to doing probably what was the right thing,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: which would have been just to give me a little
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: heads up. But you know, I don't ultimately blame him.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I certainly didn't want to feel about the way they
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: handled the ri situation, similar but yet different, Like what
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: were your thoughts when that? Um, If you want me
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: to be honest, I feel like, well, I feel like
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: they got so much backlash on what happened with me
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: because it was so set up and because the audience
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: knew that everybody knew what was going on except me,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: which made it look really bad to the audience. So
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: what they changed this time is, let's not set it
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: up to where it's the after the final roads. Let's
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: just make it think that it's just Becca and are
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: having this conversation, so she's not blindsided in front of
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a ton of people. It's an intimate setting. And so
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I think that there probably was a little damage control
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: after knowing what the decision was going to be made.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: It was going to switch, and they said, let's do
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: this in a way that won't have smart caseful if
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: he is sure I was there at the finale with Jason,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and I know he's still like he still is haunted
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: by that last episode with you. He's still getting criticism
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to him now. I don't think that, and that's why
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I I have to defend him in this because I
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: don't think he would have asked for any I mean,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: it's been ten years and people still he's so awful.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: He's a terrible person. I don't think he is. I
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: think he got wrapped up in a bad situation. Act
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: like you could you imagine imagine what happened with me
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and him happened now it's a little different, but you
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: found your husband like very soon after being dune by
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: he dated before and you went back to him how
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: soon after? Um? So after the final rose aired and done,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I went back home. He had been trying to get
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: back together with me, but I was not. What did
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: seeing him on seeing you on TV make him want you?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Not seeing me on TV knowing I was gone when
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I Because my problem with time he's my husband now
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: when we dated is that he could always kind of
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: keep me at arm's length and like we didn't have
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to be together, but if he called, I was there.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Um I did not have the ability to cut the cord.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: So thankfully the Bachelor made me cut the chord. You know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: you have to turn in your phone and stuff, so
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I legit. Did you marry the guy from the seven
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: year breakup? No? Thankfully, this is crazy. I mean really,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: it's we've we've talked about it before. Being on the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: show oftentimes cultivates this new level of like romance for
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you and it opens you up to say, I do
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: really want to find somebody and you enter into that
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: stage of life. So you enter into this new relationship
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: now with your husband, and Dancing with Stars happens. It
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: goes really well, what was your finish on Dance with Stars?
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: First time? Third and you came back for the all
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: time championship? Yeah, and how did you do that? You
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: are a dancer the Stars champions. Well know that I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: have a trophy though. Good for you. And so now
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: you're entering in this whole new stage. Was something that
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I think you're really passionate about. Um, you're on CMT
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Cheiler is making the team. Tell us more
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: about this. Um, Well, obviously that's where everything kind of
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: started for me. When I was right out of college.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I became a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Um, so you're a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: good dancer, good dancer, good faker. How about that? I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: can fake my way through it. Um, you should see it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: It's really awesome. I'm a good dancer. I like to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: watch him dance. Looking at her face, Yeah, see she
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: likes to watch me dance. Which would make me a
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: great cheerleader because all these fifty people would love to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: watch me dance. Would you wear the white short? I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: would wear anything they want, anything they want me in,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I would wear because I'm a good dance. There's a
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: picture of you as a Dallas cover so hot. Mid
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: drift for me would be a little awkward. Well, I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: got away from We've talked about it. I've got away
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: from manscaping a little bit single because well, yeah, because
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I'm single. And then based on the show that one
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: of the executive producers like, it's no longer cool to shave,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: like to along Gale, Well, look at a lawn head,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: his whole head. And so I just haven't in like
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: three years. And so the shorts with the middrift showing
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: might be a little much for anybody watching, But for me,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I would feel very confident and comfortable that's all that matters.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Confidence is really of it. Are there any men on
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the team? Not on the count never and never on
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: an NFL T There are? I wish I knew off
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the top of my head. Really there's a group that
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: have men. It's interesting, right, but I think it's a
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: conversation people are having because the social tides they are returning,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and I feel like people are afraid to say no,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: guys can't do that. It's for women. The rams and
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: say it's both have male teaters this year. I love
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the voice in our ear, very amazing. I didn't know that. St. Louis.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: It's new this year. Make your dreams come true. Okay,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: so this is for men. So Loo's cowboys like? Um? Okay,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: So tell us a little bit about the show. So
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: this starts for you as a Dallas cow a cheerleader
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: years ago? How long did twelve years ago? Um? Oh? Six?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Twelve years ago? Twelve years ago? Good guests, man, um,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and you go on the show, all this happens as
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: we just talked about, and now you're back. You're back
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: in Dallas on CMTS dancing or Dallas Cowboys cheeralers making
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the team. Why should people tune into this, UM. I've
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: been I've been working with them now for five years.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys have ever seen it,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: but I've seen it a couple of times. I think
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the fascination with this show is that you have a
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: group of girls, like the Cowboys cheerleaders, and there's always
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: been this facade of like they're just these pretty girls
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: out there with pom poms. And what the show does.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: It kind of pulls back the curtain and lets you
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: see it's like the inner workings of a reality show.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: You know, people are so interested to know what really happens,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: and so it kind of takes you through the tryout process,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and it's a three month training camp, UM, and you
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: get to know the girls and you root for them,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately some of them don't make the team. You know,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: ten girls get cut through training camp. But it's just
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: it's an interesting look at what it takes to make
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: a team like that. How many girls are on the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: team three six. It makes me feel like I'm back
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: doing basketball or volleyball tryouts in high school. It's just
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: like I feel, it's a feeling, very unique, a very
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: unique feeling. No, both I didn't make it. No, not
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: even volleyball. Didn't really try hard for volleyball. My mom
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: made me do that. She's like, you're going to get
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: active your first year freshman year. You're gonna get active,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: get active and involved. And I was like, I don't
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: want to be involved. Being at Dallas Cowboys sheerler is
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: a pretty big deal, right, It is a big deal,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: especially if you're in the Dallas area, from which I am.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a it's a big thing. But
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: you don't make any money. It's like a novel two thing, right,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: you don't get rich off of it. I mean, yeah,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody really does it to become millionaires.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: You know, it's supposed to be a part time job.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: But the the other perks that you get from it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: With the evolution of social media and the shows, these
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: girls have a built in audience and they can kind
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: of do anything they want afterwards. Did you know that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Jasmine from The Bachelor was also a Dallas Cowboys I did.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I was actually working with them during trouts when Jasmine
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: was I think her fifth year, completing her fifth year.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, she was there a five year A long time,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and like this isn't. I mean, you have a pretty
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: like talented group of women trying out for the spot.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I mean this season alone, which is crazy and I'm
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: gonna be super exciting to watch. There's a huge talent
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: of of rookies, as it says here season cheerleaders from
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: uh the NFL, NBA, and NHL, Miss America, two thousand
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: seventeen up professional hip hop dancers, and a former competitive
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: ice skater all trying for these spots. And this is
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the crazy part of this. At the end of the day,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: their fate rest in the hands of Kelly fing Glass
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and you, well, Judy too, the correct you that just
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: rolled off the tongue so easy, that knowledge that you
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: have I can tell. I mean, I mean, really like
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: all of these people who have crazy stories, amazing backgrounds,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: their pedigrees are are some of the top in the world,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and they're coming in and their fate sits in your hands.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: How much pressure do you feel, Well, it's a ton
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of pressure. I mean in the world of dance. If
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: it's a world that you appreciate, I mean, it's kind
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: of this is the highest level that you can get.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: So there are girls that come from other professional teams,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: We've had girls come from Broadway, we have the runner
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: up from Miss USA. I mean, it attracts them all
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: over and me now being on the other side of it,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I look at these girls, going, God, y'all are so little,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: you know. They some of them are as young as
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: eighteen years old, you know, and they're such at an
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: impressionable age that I don't want to be the one
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to tell them you're not going to make it. But
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: coming into trials, you know, there's only like eleven spots
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: available because you have the veterans that are returning. Most
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: of them are usually guaranteed to come back, some of
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: them don't. But there's hundreds of girls that come in
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: eleven spots. It's just it's the reality of it. Can
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: we get Ashley on the show? No way you should.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: That's my childhood dream of being a cheerleader, And then
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I never tried out for it because I just wasn't popular,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and I felt like you had to be the popular popular.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: He's gonna shake. I'm bad at moving, poorly coordinated. I'll
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: do it if you do it, I mean, yeah, then
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I would do it for the sake of seeing you
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: do it, and then not make it. And you'd probably
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: do way better. Yeah, we'll see. Um, what gets you like?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: What gets you fired up about this show? I mean,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: because it's obviously in the in the world that we're
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: living the day, Uh, everything scrutinized, we're really trying. I
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: think we're in a generation that's that's or at a
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: time period that's really trying to do things right. And
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I know this show is really in support of healthy
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: eating habits, a healthy diet. Uh. You know, it's really
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: kind of confronting the body image conversation and trying to
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: make it a healthy conversation. What role do you play
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: in that? Um, Well, this year, I'm I'm really proud.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: In the past, you know, there has been a lot
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of criticism on how much emphasis is placed on the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: body and the figure and not so much on the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: health part of it, and I think that's true. I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: think sometimes when you're an outsider looking in, all you
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: see is a bunch of skinny girls that have to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: fit into a uniform. And in reality, on all I
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: can speak for is on this squad is they don't
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: necessarily just want a skinny stick figure girl. I mean,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you have to be strong, you have at the beginning
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: of the game, five minute routine kick line, and then
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: you're dancing all four hours of the game, and that
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: takes strength and it takes stamina, you know, and you
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: can't be a waif who doesn't eat. Not to mention,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: that doesn't really look good. And I don't mean to
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: say that, but you know, abnormally unhealthy skinny does not
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: look good. And so this season they really are focusing
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: on helping some of the girls get healthy so that
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: they can be good performers. I mean, that's that's huge. Really,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I'm hearing more and more and I'm just thinking, I'm
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: in for this. I think you're training for marathon. Well
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I kind of stop. Stop now, I just got busy. Um,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: But I mean as we as we speak, I'm drinking
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and drinking something green juice that has a ton of
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: stuff in it, and so I think I'm pretty healthy. Yeah,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I think you are too. You just said that you
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: would spend your all your money at Whole Foods if
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you had the opportunity. I would. And I'm still going
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to try to finish this trayathlon. That's still like my athlon.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Why don't you try a marathon? That's yeah, that's not
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: something you can just go do, right, I'm gonna train.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I just I've been traveling for a couple of weeks. Guys,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: get off my back. I'm not that's just I'm getting aggressive.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm just asking. I'm feeling a little insecure.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Now I need to go out and run a little bit.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, Melissa, thank you so much for being here.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: It's Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders making the team a premier's Thursdays. Well,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: it is a premiere yeah. Um, it is on on
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: CMT at ten nine Central on Thursdays, and it's the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: highest rated season today. It so congratulations you're telling it
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: thirteen seasons, Melissa Rycroft, Congratulations on taking something that could
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: have been just really sad and you could have played
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the victim and you could have just gone in the
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: corner quietly and cried. And instead you put your steak down.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: You said I'm going to do something, and you have
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and look, you could all happen for a reason. Sorry
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: to cut another question, but like you know how everybody says, oh,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: everything happens for a reason, and like one day, like
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: do you really believe that, Like you probably wouldn't have
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: married your husband had not. For Yeah, I do, because
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think I ever would have cut the cord,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: you know. I think I just would have been that
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: girl that eventually that relationship would have worn out. I
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have the career that I have either, you know, honestly,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I mean I owe everything to that one and exactly
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the way it went down. Yeah, And I've even heard
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: an interview with Jason and Molly where Molly said she's like,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we would be together if he
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: had picked me right off the bat. I think a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: little bit. So Yeah, I think it's like it was
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: kind of a lull in all of our lives and
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: then we come out of it going all right, there
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: you go little embarrassment and when just for like people listening,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: because in life, the one thing about the Bachelor is
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: like it's just a heightened version of life. When did
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: you realize that, Like, when did you start to feel better?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Was it after dancing with the stars, when you like
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: said to yourself, oh, maybe this is happening for a reason.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: When did you start to kind of feel better and go, oh,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: maybe I can see why this went down. I think
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: it was after we had filmed our after the final
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: rows after everything had happened and the show is airing,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and you guys can attest to it's a really weird
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: time when a show is airing and it's three months
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: since it's actually happened to you in real life, and
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I'm essentially living in a bubble of all these emotions.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I had the happiest moment in my life getting engaged,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: then the most embarrassing happened in a two week span,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and I have nobody to talk to about it, and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: so you're like in this warped space. And all I
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: had to do from the time that the show started
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: airing until when every was going to find out what
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: happened was to kind of sit and marinate over what
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the heck has just happened in my life? Um, And
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you know what, that's kind of when I got some
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: confidence and I went, you know what, I'm kind of
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: done fighting for people to want me and like me.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: And I can't make anybody happy if I can't make
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: myself happy. All that stuff that you hear, that was
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the time in my life when it actually hit me.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And it's funny because once that happened is when everything
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: in my life changed. And you you spoke a lot
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: of truth there. I'm sitting here thinking because you know,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of our stories on the show are very similar,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: and it really does make you interest like introspective and
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: start to think about yourself and process yourself and and
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: listen to the criticism enough to know that some of
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: its truth and a lot of it's not. But like
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: understand that you're not going to ever make everybody. Hard
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: thing to really like. It's one thing to say it
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to yourself, it's another thing to actually like get to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: a place where you believe it. If you're making everyone happy,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you're probably boring. Jennifer Lopez can't make everybody. Yeah, she
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: makes me happy. She's something else. Um, Melissa, for all
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: of your success. Uh and like we said, it's the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: highest rating season to day on Dallas Cowboys. Sheiler is
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: making the team. You're Dancing with the Stars champion. Uh,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: you successfully completed the Bachelor franchise. Do you feel like
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: sitting here in this room right now is the moment
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: you really feel like you've made it? This is it?
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is Instagram post. Let's be honest, We're
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: gonna get a picture after this. Melissa Rycroft, thanks for
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: coming in. She's killing it. She really is. She's doing
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: a great job. She's so cute. Yeah she is. You're like,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I wish she was single. I mean, I can appreciate
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I can appreciate a cute, a beautiful, put together, like
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: successful woman like until I could. I can appreciate her
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and just say you can appreciate her. Yeah, Like I
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: would love for my wife to be like Melissa one day.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: She has sexy mom hair. I told her just that,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Can I say that? You can't? Yeah, I'm just saying, like,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: is that acceptable? We we've we've talked about this is
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: acceptable for me to say she has sexy mom heir? Yeah,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: totally in this in this case, yes, And there's not
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: like a lot of people that can make that haircut sexy,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: and she does. You're just talking about it. We have,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: we have so much to talk about. Ashley and Melissa
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: were just out um earlier today talking and I overheard
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: a conversation about they wear their hair. I thought it
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: was because they were saying their husbands and significant others
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: like a like in a certain style and color, and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: they're like, now, we kind of gave that up, but
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: you're still kind of in the stage with Jared where
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: you're wearing your hair a certain way because he likes it, well,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: he likes it short, and I like it short too,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: but he would also be I'm sure if he'd think
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: it was really hot if it was super long. It's
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: just that that's like, but he only says that it's maybe,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: but he says that he likes Yeah. So anybody out
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: there listening, make sure you email us at Ben and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Ashley I heard me dot com. Let us know why
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: you choose to wear where your hair the way you do.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I'm start to get educated. I'm trying to talk about
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: this because I think hair like fashion. I not right
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: now obviously I'm wearing the worst outfit of all time
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: right now. But typically I dress to look cute for
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: boys as opposed to like being so fashion forward where
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it's like, clearly it's for girls. So a lot of
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: girls will say most girls will say that they dress
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: for girls. I am not one of them. I will
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: dress the way that I think Jared thinks it's cut
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: ist that I dress. Yeah, But if you want to
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: talk about makeup, which we should totally talk about guys
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: preferences on makeup amounts. After we talk about something that's
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: going to make my stomach so grally because I'm really hungry.
• 37:43
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• 37:45
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• 38:01
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• 39:18
  Speaker 1: it's I don't think chicken nuggets would be in How
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: cute is that burger? Isn't that a TV show? Um?
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think they would have chicken nuggets on their mania.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's processed. They don't believe you can
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: totally make healthy chicken nuggets um at home. You can't
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: take actual like chicken breakin less boneless chicken breast cut
• 39:36
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• 39:57
  Speaker 1: that we have chicken on the line. Well you can wait,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: canny way, Yeah, I think you can. All right. So
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: yesterday Nick Vile was over my house. We he was
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: doing a podcast with me, and he was like, Ashley,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: you look so good right now. You look so much
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: better with makeup. I can't stand it when you have
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: like an inch of foundation on Why is your preference
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: when it comes to girls with makeup? Do you like
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: with without? Do you think that you like without? But
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: really they have a little bit on here's my thing
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: and I mean this, um, I just noticed this. They
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: on Instagram. All those before and after pictures kind of
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: creeped me out a little bit, honestly, Like it's like
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: before and you're like you're beautiful before, and then you
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: see the after, You're like you look like a different person. UM,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: so let's ask David. David, I feel like I'm in
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: the hot seat here. Do you like girls with more
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: makeup or less makeups? Somebody would say that of natural beauty.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: David has been un Paradise. That was so hilarious talking
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: about the new girls coming down and how they looked.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: She was like, they haven't been in Paradise. They haven't
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: been Paradise Paradise. But you know, Tia and Bibbie are
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: totally rocking the natural look and I think it looks
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: so good. David, we gotta start this conversation off right. Um,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: on a scale of one that now you're you're you're
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: an education educated guy on a A, B, C, D S.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: What do you grade yourself on your performance in Paradise?
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that. I agree. We actually love you.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Are we watching the same completely the email we got? Um, yeah,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: somebody pull up the email here, David, you and I
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: have to have a man chat as she's gonna look
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: up this email. Um, why a F I'm mean, first
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: of all, the you know, the I guess like the
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: level of giving the cake to Jenna and then the
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: birthday dog to Jenna. I don't know it just I
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: didn't feel great. I didn't do great. I didn't develop
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: anything with the single person. Chelsea and I had something
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: good's going for a little while, but not a lot.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: But did you kiss? Yeah? We didn't show any of it.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: But we had a good time together, you know. Um
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: we did have a lot of fun and we had
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: something specially going a little bit. I liked it. Um,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: just you know I didn't go in that direction. So uh,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: it's kind of a passpelt right, Man. I absolutely felt David.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: You know, I love you. I mean I do. I
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: really like you a lot. But there was these moments
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: during Paradise like it was a very hard relationship for
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: you and I as I was watching for the through
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: the screen, because you'd have moments where I was like,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: that's the David I know and love, Like he's he's
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: confiding in people, and he's talking to people, and he's
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: he's a sounding board for for hard conversations and he's
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: wise and intelligent, and then you would just fff it
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: up bad. Sure it's hard for me to watch too
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: because I know there's a different person there too, and
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: then it's like, oh, man, who is this guy? Why
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: where does it come? From I don't know. I don't know.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's just not meant to be on television. They
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: don't say that. I don't know if I could have
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: got through this year without watching you on television, David
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Better on Winter Games. If they do it again, why
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: do you think you're so susceptible to a producer pressure.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about you didn't get that dog on your own.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: So here's a look, chicken, you didn't get that dog
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: on your But let's break this down here, get one second.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: We can all blame producers. And I've said this before
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: and I put my I'll stand firm on this. I
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: never acknowledged the producers, but like, yeah, when it's something
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: like you giving him, giving her too, but he doesn't
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: need to say yes. Okay, that's that's the limma. Okay,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: of course, of course, it's in in everybody's best interest
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: to go here's a grand idea, like you should do it,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: and we could all just say yes and it would
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: be a crazy show. Or I don't believe in this,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I can't do this, and they'll say, okay, like totally cool.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Do you do your thing? So David, let's go back
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: to that question. Let's not blame producers. Let's blame you
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: willing to take complete responsive that's the definitely. I mean,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: you know, sure they give you suggestions on what to do,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: but you can absolutely say no. You absolutely say yes,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: and whatever is within the realm of the scope of
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: whatever I want to do, it comfortable with. So absolutely,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: you know, take responsibility for my action. But then an
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: answer asked this question, why are you so susceptible to
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: do the literally worst possible thing in a situation? Oh? Man,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Actually I wish I
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: could have a better answer for you, but I don't know.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: You're about to go take a class right now. I
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: didn't know that you were in school. Is it a
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: class on O to behavior economic theory? Class? What? The
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: University of Miami? You guys are more than welcome down here.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. Did you did your mommy make your lunch? Oh?
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: My god, no she didn't. Unfortunately, it would be a
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: lot better than what I ate. Does your mommy make
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: you dinner every night? I actually cooked blue apron last night?
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: All right, David's how much time we got with you?
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: A little while with you? Okay? Cool? So are you
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: like enrolled in school. Yeah, I'm getting my MBA at
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: the University of Miami. I'll just continue to get better.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: This guy's marriage material. Yeah, you are the chicken is
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: marriage material. I absolutely, David, I love you, you you know that.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Like I'm so angry with you sometimes because I know
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: there's so much in there and you do the exact
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: things that bother me most about people. And then I
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: just see where your heart's at. And I talked to you,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I get it, Like you don't want
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: to You don't want to make Jordan's life miserable either,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: do you? A hundred percent? Not? I actually like the guy.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: He's he's pretty funny. Okay, now you went too far?
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Do you really like it? Uh? You know, look, I
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: accept him for you know what he is. I would
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: never want to date the same person as him, but
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: you know, he's actually kind of funny. Well, then why
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: didn't you go out for Jenna? Yeah? Because at that time,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: like Jenna had just walked onto the beach, a new personality,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: new person there, why not trying to get to know her?
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: And she had been there for less than twelve hours
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: by the time that, Um, you know, I talked to her, so, um,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to get to know everyone there,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: tried to become friends with everyone. No, David, you gave
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: her a cake and then the next day you gave
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: her a dog. Yeah, don't back off of it, David. Yeah,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: it was It was a gesture and I clearly got
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: her attention. Um, so in some respect it worked. Um,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: but you know, I actually I really didn't know Jordan's
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: level of interest and her at that point, to be
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: completely honest, watching it back, obviously you can't see it. Um,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: But I wasn't really part of those conversations there, so
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: that's not something I was able to say they had
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: a cosmic connection. What do you feel like when he
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: went to go dump the dog in the water? Oh
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: my god, I was sitting there cringing, like what did
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I just do? Oh? So you knew you were wrong there?
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: That's what I was wondering when you were watching him
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: doing that. Were you saying I missed this up or
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I knew this was going to be the outcome? No,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: I am not not even knew that. I knew that
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: that was gonna be the outcome, and I just didn't
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: know the level that he was gonna take it and
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: uh yeah, pretty far, David. I cannot believe that we've
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: watched you for two seasons and this is still the
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: storyline playing out, Like I know, it's so dumb, it's
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: so crazy. I mean, you're literally sitting on a couch
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: watching this poor man say you little chicken, like I
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: cannot seem to just get away from you, like I'm
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: not interested in making your life hell anymore, and all
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: you're doing is making my life it and as a result,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I am so upset. Okay, So here's here's your out
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: And this is where things got real. We talked about
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: it last week on the on the podcast. Um So,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: then Jordan goes up to where everybody's sitting after this
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: encounter with you, and he's getting laughed at because of
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: this pretty funny like Well said, uh, you know, it's
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: one of the funniest things he's ever witnessed with his
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: own eyes. But George was actually upset, and so there's
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: a moment that got really real where he actually kind
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: of lashes out at the people sitting in the room.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: What were your feelings watching that this little thing that
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: you're pulling, And then all of a sudden, it gets
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: real real fast. Yeah. That's that's where I was like,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: oh man, what should I just do? And like actual,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: like real emotions hit me because I felt like I
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: was the cause of that, you know, I felt like
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: I was the cause of some women being laughed at. Um.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: And that's really where it, you know, went from kind
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: of a playful type thing to you know, actual real stuff.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: And you know, I sat there as Jordan, come on, man,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: you don't need to say these things. If you're mad
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: at anyone, bead at me Yellow, don't yell at Jubilee,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: don't yell at Chelsea. Um. And you know they didn't
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: show it. But I went down to speech and you
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: had a chat with Jordan at the book. You know,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I didn't mean that, you know, for that
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: to happen um. And you know he apologized that showed
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the apology and at that point that's when things got
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: really um. That was my attempted, intended action and didn't
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: want that consequences. I think, as as viewers here, because
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: David's biased outside of this one encounter for Jordan's he
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: has the best redemption story in Paradise, I find myself
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: really enjoying him and really rooting for him to find
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: love down there. He's been great. The only thing he's
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: really messed up on that he seemed to kind of
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: get away with when was when he was planning with
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Chris um that whole audition process for Chris's girls. He
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: was like, you have an appetizer with her and then
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: you have dinner with her. That was the only time
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: that well there's that too. Yeah, I think Ben stuck
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: out besides the meltdown, but like, yeah, it was overlooked
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: that he was part of that whole Chris thing. Yeah,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: agreed Chris. No, I do like Chris. But the only
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: other thing I'll have you know, I didn't love when
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: he put Analyte on the back for her. I just
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: could have done better in that situation. He was honest
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: with her, but I never wanted to tell a woman that,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: you know, she's second choice. This is David, Okay, this
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: is where we get confused. I'll stop you here because
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: last week I was confused on our podcast talking to
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Analyze about how these guys get away with kissing multiple people,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: and how these women get away with kissing multiple people,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: and how if you as long as you're not committed,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: then it's fair game to do what you want with
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: who you want, when you want. And so you're saying
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: that by him being honest and telling her, hey, like
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: I'm into you, but like not that much, that was wrong.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: He's saying that he should say I'm in to you
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: but not that much, but not say blatantly you're my
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: second place, like you're my second choice. And you know
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: the way I treat Paradise, which you know, whether it
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: was good good, try to here that tragedy. I never
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: wanted to kick multiple people. You know, I was there
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: to potentially develop relationship with one person, and then you
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: know that's what happened. I only kissed Chelsea, you know,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: I only you know, uh went in that route, and
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: um yeah, I just felt like it was wrong for
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Jordan to say, uh, you know, kind of Bernard's hype
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: material type thing. But you know, here you are with
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Jordan's again. Yeah, this kidding with you. I wanted to
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: follow up on what Ashley asked about Chris, because everybody
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: keeps telling us Chris is a great guy. Chris is
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: so cool, but he comes across repulsive, like totally like jerky,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: like what he did to Tia just seemed jerky. Yeah,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: but like there's also something in his eyes that makes
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: me scared. You don't like the headband. The headband doesn't
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: help her with the headband and the crazy eye. Yeah,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mean. Well, um, I really like
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: a person, and I think that in that environment, situation,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: the same thing I'm attached there. It kind of lost
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: his mind a little bit, played into the whole storyline,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: played into this situation, you know, kind of the same
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: thing happened. And you know, watching back, it's hard to
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: hear some of the things that he said, especially um,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: you know about women and the whole meal thing, you
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: know that was awful, and how he treated Chia. Um.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: So looking back on it, I'm sure he has a
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: ton of regret. Is a good guy and does mean
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: well at heart. I don't know. I just can't wait
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: till we get somebody in here, Dade. I thought it
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: would be you. We would ask you a question like that,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: But yeah, he just sucks. I can't wait till that day.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: That's gonna be a good that would be one that
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: we we promote. Then are you saying that you think
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: that Leo sucks? I guess we're just trying to get
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: you to say that somebody sucks. I mean in Paradise
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: in Mexico, Leo definitely thought, um, you know he uh
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: he did the not the great things and you know,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: and the when he got into the fight at the
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: cocktail party with Joe, um, Healy went went over the top.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: I think, well, you're yeah. It's absolutely incredible to me
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: how paradise brings out the most vicious of personalities, especially
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: when it comes to dating Leo. We gotta get Lee
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: on the podcast. I gotta talk to him. You know, David,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: you and I have kind of hashed out, worked it out.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: I was, I was upset with you. Um, we've worked
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: it out now and I'm a big fan of you know.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: I have my David Rabbit's T shirt on right now.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Actually I got your face with puppy dog ears um
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: on my chest. Um, David, you're great. We appreciate you.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: We wish you would have found love. But I mean
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: he's admitting that he yeah, yeah, he didn't know he
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: didn't find love. And now now he's in Miami, uh
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: at grad school, you know, looking for a nice little
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Miami woman. I think, yeah, we'll just know that we
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: love to make fun of you. But then I'm also
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: I also say that you are a very fun person
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: to talk to you. Thanks, Thanks, and I appreciate you.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Guys are great and anytime you want to have me on,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: I'm always always down to pop on here. You guys
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: are great, all right, chicken nuggets Sugman always always love
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: him too. I was like, yeah, I love David. I
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: like David. I mean the guy. I like him because
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: he's like that guy that you can watch on TV
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: and roots so for and no, you're gonna be so
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: disappointed by I just know that he would be like
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: a really close guy friend of mine if I were
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: on these shows. And you can see it when he's
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: having conversations with people like he's so out they did,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: He's so he really cares, like about what he's saying.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I just think he gets caught up and then all
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: of a sudden he does something and I bet he
• 54:48
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• 54:50
  Speaker 1: the pillow, like why did I do that? Again? Yeah,
• 54:55
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• 54:57
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• 54:59
  Speaker 1: to do this, and you could totally do that. You
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: should go do that. He'd like always be encouraging even
• 55:03
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• 55:05
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• 55:24
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• 55:27
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• 55:29
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• 55:34
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  Speaker 1: do you remember the movie Smart House on Disney General
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  Speaker 1: wore a little one of my favorites, I know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest that And look at the Irish and Motocross, right, yeah,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: all those are great. I mean there's some. I mean, yeah,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Ali cat Strike, Um, what don't wish upon a Star
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: with Katheryn Hige. That was Katherine Heigel, like the really
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: pretty girl. I thought she was the prettiest girl in
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: the entire world. She was she maybe is that's Disney movie? Yeah,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: but I was just thinking about Smart House after you.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: That's a good one. And now it's now it's fingertips
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: actually real life, like there is nothing that that Smart House.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: If we went back to go watch that movie, which
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  Speaker 1: I think came out in like, I think we have
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: all that stuff on a regular day basis. Now it's
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: absolutely kind. That's kind of crazy. We thought it was
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: so cool that they were like, hey, whatever your name is,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: can you play that song? And then like five slam
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: dunked funk put it up and then that's a and
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: then it came on. I mean, that was the coolest thing,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, that is um Amazon, that's what's
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: her name? Alexa Alex? How crazy? Okay, so let's take
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: a second here. This is important. Let's talk Disney Channel
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: movies for second. Um, if you think back, how crazy
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: is it that you and I grew up in a
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: time where was it week monthly there would be a
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: new movie designed just for our demographic put out there
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: on Disney for us all to watch, our whole generation.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: If we started talking about it would relate because most
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: people watch, Oh we all bond over those throwback Disney
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: movies and the Nickelodeon shows like Legends of the Hidden Temple.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Do you remember that when it was amazed and then
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: like a little zombie would pop out? What was the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: what was the Nickelodeon show where that green stuff with
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: come all of you? Well, that's slime. Slime was just
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: like on television slime was a constant back in the
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: day show you can't do that on telephone. That's from
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: our generation. Atlantis Mori set was on it. You have
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: the hair of Christine McGlade, the host. They opened their
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: lockers and talking and you got slimed if you said
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know, yes, and you got water if you
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: said wet or water. Oh yeah. There was also a
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: game show where, of course, if you got it wrong,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: they dumped the girl. You're thinking double dare, double dare.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you Summers. We can have we can have Mark
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Summers call you guys anytime. Oh my god, how cool,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Absolutely incredible though. I mean, this is something I need
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  Speaker 1: in my life. I have a long fight home here
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: coming up in a couple of days. Um, if you've
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: watched a Disney Channel movie, maybe more than three in
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: your life, please emails been in Ashley I heart mead
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: dot com or or tag us in in a Twitter
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: post or an Instagram post. Let us know what your
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: favorite was. Oh my gosh, speaking of motocross, UM actually
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: put our both hands up in the air that it
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: was at the I Heart Festival two years ago that
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Riley Smith and I knew his name. I was looking
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: at him. I was like Riley Smith from Motocross. Um.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: You know, he was like the lead guy. You were
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: just with him in Iowa. He's from He's an il
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: boy playing the same golf tournament together, big deal, Riley Smith. Yeah,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: we played the same from the c W Lucy Hale show. Yes,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: you know he actually does stuff. So Riley has been
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: super tight with Ryan Seacrest for like forever, like and
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: you know he's like an actually legit musician. Oh yes,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: I do like sings first at night at the at
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: the at them how you guys anytime Johnson Charity Golf Tom,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Riley Smith and I are there every every year. He's
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: a good Iowa boy, good looking man. Take a picture together.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: He and he's now he's starting his Uh, he's still
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: an act. He's still acting. He's taking a hustep. Look
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: at this. Well. I just thought throwback, but apparently he's
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: very current. We should have Mark Summers and Riley Men's studio.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: I just remember being in the make up room and
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: he was like he was he was hitting on me.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to like say it in
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: a nicer way. He was And I was like Riley Smith,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: my sixth grade crushes hitting on me sixth grade though
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: he was on motocross. What is that? That was? Did
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: a tournal original movie. I think he meant like he
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: rode bikes. Yeah, it's cut the systems like the way.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, but I think it's right. I
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: think our demographic is going to say more to interview
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Mark Summers or Riley Smith both. I don't know who
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Mark Somemmers is. I know Mark Somers is. He was
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: a big Nickelodeon host. He was you don't remember big Disness.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: I was a big Disney guy. Once I got older,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: fifth grade, I moved over to Disney. Okay, Um, every
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: other listening, I know you're freaking out right now in
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: your cars and in your bedrooms, are on your you
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: know your treadmills, you're going. Yeah. I love Disney Channel
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: original movies. I wish you were bad so Um, that
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: was one of my favorite times. We gosh, I enjoyed
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: that last five minutes. Um, I'm gonna enjoy this five minutes. Also,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: though we have an email from Ryan. Ryan, guys can
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: watch The Bachelor too, he says, with confidence all capital letters.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Huge fan of the show and even bigger fan of
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: the podcast. Thank you, that's awesome. He's even bigger fan
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: of the podcast about the show. Do you want to
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: know how much I make things stereotypical? When I saw
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: the name Ryan, I was like, Oh, it's a girl
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: with the name Ryan Ashley. And then and then I
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: saw the second lessons learned. I have a question for
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: both of you, he says. I'm probably in the minority
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: in terms of viewer demographics of the show. I'm a
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: male in my mid twenties and The Bachelor is probably
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: my favorite show. I recently broke up with my girlfriend
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: of many years, and watching this show and then listening
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: to your podcast makes me feel a lot less alone. Dude,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: trust me, you're not alone, however, No, you're You're right
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: there with us. However, none of my friends who are
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: guys watch the show, and I feel embarrassed to tell
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: them how big of a fan I am. My question
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: is why is the Bachelor franchise geared more towards women
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: than men? Who good question. I noticed that even most
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: of your sponsors around products that are for women, but
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: really for men. Why does society dictate that it's wrong
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: for guys to like reality TV and better for us
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: to like shows that are more masculine. Why do guys
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: feel like they have to hide being fans of this show?
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: And how can we as fans make this franchise better
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: suited for the male audience? Actually take it away? Okay, well,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: how many times do we have guys come up to
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: us and say, like, oh, my gosh, I'm a really
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: big fan. My wife from my the Lion always follows
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: my wife and my girlfriend got me into it, and
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: then oftentimes they would have broken up, but the guy
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: continues to watch. Like, Ryan, you are not alone out there.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: I would say that like a quarter of the people
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: that come up to me to say hi as a
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: fan of the show are guys. And I think as
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: far as the problem that you're you're feeling, it's a
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: very It's like that whole thing. It's like guys shouldn't
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: show emotion or guys shouldn't watch emotional programming, but you should.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you like it, if it's entertained you.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: I guess the big question there is the why to like?
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: Why you you watch? What's the point in watching for you?
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: Is it to take your mind off of things? Is
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: to connect with other people who are trying to find
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: the romantic partner. Um, I mean, Ryan, dude, I watched
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• 1:05:49
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• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: middle aged. Oh my god, Well, isn't that kind of
• 1:05:53
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• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: not middle aged. As we'd hope you wouldn't die by sixty.
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  Speaker 1: We'll never know, but we'd like to call this like
• 1:06:01
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• 1:06:04
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting there. One thing I've learned is when you
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: stand firm, and it's something that's uncommon when you. Sean
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: Booth told me this, When you yang when everybody else
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: is yanging, you're typically cooler and you're doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: So Ryan, if all of your friends are yanging and
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: not watching the show, we're not admitting to watching the show,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: and you're saying, I watched show and I enjoy it.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: I think you're on the right track. And at some
• 1:06:33
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• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: say I wish I was more like Ryan. He's so
• 1:06:36
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• 1:06:41
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• 1:08:43
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• 1:08:46
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• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: Hey Doug, before we get started, what kind of sheets
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: you sleep on? Yeah, like bed sheets. I think they're
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: like four six hundred thread count. But my Tony was
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: always rip. Okay, that happens. Wow, not not any of
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Is just that every time I move,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: just like the rip that my cows is on my
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: like my serious in my big toe. You guys need
• 1:09:16
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• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: they're not. I mean, I'm forty nine, not look good?
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: You have big feet? Man? Hey, Doug, how often do
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: you wash your sheets? Just curious because this is an
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: interesting topic for me. Wash my shoes, sheets, oh, my feet?
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: So probably about once every two weeks. My daughter has
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: promised stone thing your feet. You you wash your feet
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: every two weeks. I said that was sheets over two weeks. Okay,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: your feet every two weeks. Wash your feet every day
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: is freaking out. I'm talking like a deep scrub. But
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: in terms of the sheet, um, well, first of all,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: I don't watch set, but I don't know. I think
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: it's done like every couple of days. I would imagine
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: your wife do your clueless you probably washed them once
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: a week. Doug? Are you friends with Amy? Okay, this
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: is Doug that you all know from we've golfed with Doug.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: Familiar names. Here's the thing, real quick, I'm with you,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: but not to take this totally off subject. We gotta
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: get back to the show a little bit. But I've
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: always been admitting things during this podcast that come back
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: to haunt me and bite me in the butt. But
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: I get where you wouldn't wash your feet every day
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: because you stand in the shower. How many of us
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: actually bend over and scrub? Am? I? You do? I
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: will admit to you, Ben, I don't do it that often. No,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: it's just like they're in the mark. What about you rarely? Yeah?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: You wh it? You bend over and wash your feet?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: You do? That's crazy. I want my things to be
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: perfect automatically. And all the soap coming up about anyways,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: And did you know you're supposed to then wash your
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: body again after you wash your hair, to clean your
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: body from the shampoo stuff. Thank you, No way, you
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: just to wash your body again after you I shashed
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: my body last anyway, that's what you're supposed to being
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: in California. That's a lot of water. Yeah, it's a
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: lot of water. I honestly, I I understand that one day, Um,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: I will probably be sitting in front of my Lord
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: and Savior in heaven. He'll be like, Hey, you did
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of things right, you did a lot of
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: things wrong, and you didn't shower enough. And I'll say, dude,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: you're right so and he would probably also say, Ben,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: I've seen you in the shower and you do some
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: weird stuff in there. You have a weird side of
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: you that none of us have seen. But I like
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: love to follow you around. You think are you doing
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: in there other than that? Well, I've told you before,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: like I try to shower after I use the restroom,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: Like we heard all about that on somebody else's podcast.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: I'm just yeah, they do some weird stuff. I get it.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's okay, we all do, don't Doug. I'm
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: sorry we've gotten off topic here. Enough about me, let's
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: talk about you. Here's what I wanted to call Duck
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: because we just had this guy email in that wants
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: more manly men to stand up and admit they watched
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: The Bachelor. So I thought, who's the manliest man I know?
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Been there? It is? It is the best show out there.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, we have we get together as a family,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: well the kid it's getting a little riskue kids don't
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: watch too much. But it's the best thing ever you
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: feel like it's gotten more risque recently. Yeah, a little bit.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: I would say, I've heard that, and I don't know
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: if I agree with you. What do you break that down?
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: The one like per one the most recent the Bachelorette
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: um she was making out with everybody, and we've all
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: been making out with everyone. Yeah, but just remember like
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: years ago, it didn't seem like they just made out
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: all the time, and who knows what happens as well.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: You know, it's like it was like every Bachelor she
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: made out with. And I was like, oh my god,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: My family said the same thing. They've Yeah, my aunt's
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: been a big fan of the show for a long time,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: and and even recently she said it's gotten harder and
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: harder for her to watch. I think that's a common thread,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: and I don't know if I don't know what it is.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: And that's just not the Bachelor season that started really
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: during I think she started saying that right like during
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: next season. But all was the sauciest I thought, because
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: they kind of acknowledged she was gonna like, Amy, you've
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: watched the show for a long time, yea. The best
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: thing about Wanting is we always watched the very first one,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: because then I can pick. I tell my family it's
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: going to be this guy, this guy for this guy,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: or likewise, it'll be this girl, this girl, this girl.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: I'll pick the top three, and they usually I can
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: get two out of those that go all the way.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: I can. I was wrong with Colton? Do you do
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: you tell your friends that you watched the show? I'm selective? Wait,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: I have two important questions for Doug. One is are
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: you watching Paradise and what do you think? And two
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: I want to ask all three of you this about Colton,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: because I'm really starting to think Colton should be the Bachelor.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: Will you guys think it's weird if we follow Colton's
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: journey to losing his virginity? Oh my god. They were
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: always joking about doing that with me, right, That's like,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know they were like that. I've seen him
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: on air. I don't think he's He's got some issues,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: really yeah, And I just don't think you think I
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: mean he would like probably start making out with someone
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: and start crying or something. I don't know. He doesn't
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: have emotional issues, you guys. He's just emotional and a
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: like okay to have feelings and express them. They were
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: like emotion shaming him. Then he's not like most twenty
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: year old guys. I mean, if I was, okay, we
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be like most twenty year old guys
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: going bonkers on that show. I mean for my birthday,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: my kids got me an application to fill it out.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: But I was like, I'm married, you guys, I yeah,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: I get it. I mean I was. I was mid
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: make out I think it was with Amanda Stanton during
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: my season, and I started crying. Yeah, I started welling up. Yeah.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: It was outside of her house Towns because I just
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: put her kids to bed, and I realized that she
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: was going to be going home, and I got really
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: sad because it was gonna hurt. So I was making
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: out with her because I didn't know what else to do,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: because if you don't kiss her after hometowns when you
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: say goodbye, like she knows she's going home. So I'm
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: kissing her and I'm crying, and I get, oh, did
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: you see no? No, no no, I went and I got
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: in the car and I was like so mad and
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: let it out, but I did. When I was when
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: I was kissing her, I started crying, which is such
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: an awkward moment for anybody involved. I mean, maybe she
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: heard you really don't want Colton to be the Bachelor?
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: Is that just because your wife wants to date him completely?
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: But I think that, I know, I just don't think
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: he he would start gaining these growth and then I
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: don't know, I mean, I think that she would just
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: be so distracted off getting further into relationship. You know,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: he's I mean, he's a pretty serious guy in terms
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: of relationships, obviously because he's still urgent. But I think
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: that he just I don't know. I don't know if
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: you'd make a getafter I'm sure I want to watch him.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: I would watch that. So here's my plan for Colton? Um,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: as he said she'd been in their interview last week. Um,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: he's really grown up a lot throughout this process. As
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: I feel like I did. I feel like Colton and
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: my experiences on The Bachelor of really I loved each other.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: I think he needs to come back to Paradise next
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: year and then he'll become the Bachelor after that all
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: on Nick, Yeah, yeah, for sure, I mean it it
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: all depends on what happened next. Doug. I want to
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: sit down with you and just talk Bachelor the whole time.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: But before we go, we have a couple of questions,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: uh that Ashley has been anxious about asking you about. Um,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: you love The Bachelor, but do you love Yeah, we're
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about like other quote feminine shows and movies,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: like do you love Gray's Anatomy? I've never seen it? Oh,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: do you love Mama Mia? Um? I thought it was
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, you're talking about the play? Yeah, to play,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: So I'm very particular. Like I liked it. I liked
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: most plays as long as I get a good cheat. Okay, yeah,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: Like I didn't have a good teat so I walked out.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: We were in London with kids and my wife's stade. Um.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: So I didn't like Mamma Mia the Broadway musical either,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: but I really liked the first movie, not the second. Yeah,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't watch too much TV except for Survivor,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: Bachelor Paradise. What about Magic Mike, I've never heard of it. Yes,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: you have magic Mike. We've all heard of it with
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: Channing Tatum shakes his hips, Doug, what about Magic Mike
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: double XL Yeah, very funny, thanks, Doug. Right, that tells
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: you so much about my life that's that's one of
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: my closest friends. Yeah. It. Doug's a good dude, you guys.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: I just thought that I want my dad to come
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: on the podcast next time we do this and recap
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise because my dad will
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: text me and he'll be like, there's a lot of
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: awls on this season. That's just take Yeah. Yeah, Mr
• 1:19:05
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• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: doctor doct Sorry my bad. Um, so you had the
• 1:19:13
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• 1:19:16
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• 1:19:18
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• 1:19:21
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• 1:22:15
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• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: Um from Gray's and Adele. We are sophomores in college
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: and we've been watching The Bachelor for years. We've been
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: listening to the Almost fame As podcast since the very beginning,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: and we discussed the in depth every week. We both
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: love you so much. Ashley is literally Grace's dream life
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  Speaker 1: is so nice. She's a hopeless romantic. She's crying frequently
• 1:22:36
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• 1:22:40
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• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: loves the Greatest Showman because she's creative and she loves
• 1:22:49
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• 1:22:54
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• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: I do too. Would you like to about yourself from there? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Naturally, we have some questions about the show. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: do the contestants have an opportunity to go to church?
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  Speaker 1: Will on the show And we've never heard anyone discuss
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  Speaker 1: this before, but religion seems to be an important part
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  Speaker 1: of the lives of many contestants. Does the lead know
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  Speaker 1: where the this is another question. Let's up there. You
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  Speaker 1: talk about the church things and then the next question
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  Speaker 1: is does the lead know where they're traveling? Sometimes most
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  Speaker 1: of the time. Um, But I think the really key
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  Speaker 1: question here is, uh, the talks on faith and church
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  Speaker 1: and all that. It's such an interesting topic because it
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  Speaker 1: really I mean, everybody, no matter if you come from
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  Speaker 1: a faith background or not, you have some feeling on faith.
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  Speaker 1: You either have a faith you do not, Like everybody
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  Speaker 1: has at least asked the question, I hope, why do
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  Speaker 1: I believe what I believe? And so it's such an
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  Speaker 1: interesting topic when it comes down to the people you're dating.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the most essential conversations to me. And
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  Speaker 1: the questions me is what do you believe in and
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  Speaker 1: why do you believe in it? Like, if anything I
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  Speaker 1: want to I want in my life to pursue truth,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that is. And so that's why I follow um
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  Speaker 1: the faith background that I do. So this is this
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: is key in every conversation with every woman, especially after
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: kind of like night or week one or week two,
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  Speaker 1: that's when these conversations start to to to happen. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some of my favorites. Now, if you can
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  Speaker 1: go to church. Now sometimes I I know there's holidays,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a Sunday off. A lot of times
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: you're filming on Sundays. You don't get weekends off on
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: the show, and so you know when when you're filming,
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  Speaker 1: you actually don't get too go to church. But for me,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: and I guess in my in my life, church is
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: incredibly important. I go to a great church in Denver,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't get to go very often because I travel.
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  Speaker 1: So church isn't the foundation of my faith. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: something I get to partake him, to be around the
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: community of a fellow people who believe what I believe,
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  Speaker 1: and that's an encouraging time for me. So early wasn't
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: a huge issue if I went to church or not.
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  Speaker 1: My faith didn't falter or change. It just was I
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  Speaker 1: gotta out of routine. So no, typically you do not
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  Speaker 1: get the church. And to answer your second question, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people actually talk about faith. It's not shown.
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  Speaker 1: I think for a thousand different reasons. For me, I
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: wish that was shown a little bit more because it
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: gotten some of the depth of of why I invest
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  Speaker 1: my life into the things I invest into, and um,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: that was a lot of the conversations we were having.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: But it's not shown because I think it's controversial. Um,
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: you'd often get times, don't get the time and a
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  Speaker 1: show to explain everybody's you know, faith backgrounds and why
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  Speaker 1: they believe what they believe. So it's talked about, it's
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: not shown very often. I get why. I'm not mad
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  Speaker 1: about it, but I do think it's important and it's
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